GNU bug report logs - #44320
[PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lin Sun <lin.sun <at> zoom.us>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 23:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #74 received at 44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, sunlin7 <at> yahoo.com, 44320 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, lin.sun <at> zoom.us
Subject: Re: bug#44320: [PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send
 all contents
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:26:18 +0100

On Nov 02 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Too many subtle assumptions for my palate.  In general, stdio is not
> safe in the presence of signals.

That is true, at least if the stream is conntected to a blocking device
(file I/O is not affected by signals).

> Would it be better to suspend SIGIO by calling unrequest_sigio instead
> (and resume it once 'fwrite' returns)?

It might be even better to use POSIX I/O.

Andreas.

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GNU bug report logs - #44320 [PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents

GNU bug report logs - #44320
[PATH] [27.1] Make sure send-string-to-terminal send all contents